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| How do you feel about the police? |
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| I don't like what they stand for, but have no problem with them individually. |
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| They're a necessary evil. |
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| They're just ordinary people doing a job that needs to be done. |
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| They're great. Melbourne's finest! |
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Pretty much every society has had someone in charge and people tasked with enforcing the laws.
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Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| David wrote: | Given the intrigue that goes on in some Lesbian nightclubs, I'm pretty sure that island would still need policewomen.  |
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David 
I dare you to try
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Mugwump
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I watched the footage of them going into the Bataclan night club with their Kevlar jackets and helmets, and thought that their job was a hundred times more difficult than mine, and how much they are on my side when there is real evil abroad. of course they have to be kept accountable, but thank God we have men and women who will play their role, and play it most of the time very well despite incredible social and personal stress.
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| Mugwump wrote: | | I watched the footage of them going into the Bataclan night club with their Kevlar jackets and helmets, and thought that their job was a hundred times more difficult than mine, and how much they are on my side when there is real evil abroad. of course they have to be kept accountable, but thank God we have men and women who will play their role, and play it most of the time very well despite incredible social and personal stress. |
Amen to that.
(As long as they ain't checking out Facebook! OMG David, really?!!!!)
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| luvdids wrote: | | David wrote: | | This is the thing. I treated this guy yesterday as a human being and he treated me the same. No prejudice either way. |
But, why wouldn't you? Did you have to make a conscious effort to treat him as a human being? Seems like a strange thing to say otherwise..
Anyway, any disparaging remarks about people, anywhere, being police officers after the tragic events in Paris? Seriously, you couldn't pay me enough to be a cop and be on the front line of that sort of stuff. Back to the poll options - they're definitely not 'just ordinary people'. |
Agre with both parts of this post.
David seriously, you can't see how arrogant your posting is on this? You knock others for judging all the time, and yet how judgemental ar you when it comes to figures in authority? Every criminal in your mind has a right to an excuse, yet the cops are held to a seperate standard.
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Mugwump
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| think positive wrote: | | Mugwump wrote: | | I watched the footage of them going into the Bataclan night club with their Kevlar jackets and helmets, and thought that their job was a hundred times more difficult than mine, and how much they are on my side when there is real evil abroad. of course they have to be kept accountable, but thank God we have men and women who will play their role, and play it most of the time very well despite incredible social and personal stress. |
Amen to that.
(As long as they ain't checking out Facebook! OMG David, really?!!!!) |
Just read what they had to do going into that nightclub. Two by two, stepping through doors into rooms unknowing about what was on the other side, facing men wearing suicide vests. Thank God for the police in a functioning liberal democracy.
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| Mugwump wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | Mugwump wrote: | | I watched the footage of them going into the Bataclan night club with their Kevlar jackets and helmets, and thought that their job was a hundred times more difficult than mine, and how much they are on my side when there is real evil abroad. of course they have to be kept accountable, but thank God we have men and women who will play their role, and play it most of the time very well despite incredible social and personal stress. |
Amen to that.
(As long as they ain't checking out Facebook! OMG David, really?!!!!) |
Just read what they had to do going into that nightclub. Two by two, stepping through doors into rooms unknowing about what was on the other side, facing men wearing suicide vests. Thank God for the police in a functioning liberal democracy. |
Yeah, I don't know how you do that, so amazingly brave, all of them. True heroes. My sisters a cop, I don't know how they do it, having no idea what is going to happen that day, but having a pretty goodideatheywill see something they would rather not.
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Mugwump
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^ yes indeed. Like all human institutions, they can go wrong, at times, but they're our internal army and we need them.
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luvdids 
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Tannin 
Can't remember
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Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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| luvdids wrote: | | the "shoot first ask questions later" mentality seems to still be around too much for my liking. |
Now be fair. He didn't shoot much. What's a mere 16 shots between friends? Anyway, the other chap was black. Everybody knows killing a black kid isn't really murder.
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Wokko 
Come and take it.
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| In most of these cases there has been mitigating circumstances (from weapons, to attacks to charging the officer) and the officers have been released without charge. This case however is clearly just a thug who thinks he can murder with impunity. Makes you wonder how many cases of police shootings that don't have video are the same. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
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Keep in mind the American cops are conditioned to expect every fuckstick they approach has a hidden weapon, usually a gun. If you don't shoot first you may not get a chance to shoot at all.
If a cop pulls you over in the US you sit up straight and put both hands on the wheel where they're visible and don't be a smartarse.
Doesn't excuse that bloke in the link, there's fucksticks everywhere, but just pointing out the cultural differences.
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Skids 
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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Gees that's disgusting
And gees I hope she left
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